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A large number of.Com become a ghost sword a new round of domain spoofing aimed at you

A new round of called pharming (pharming) attacks aimed at the Internet domain name.Com, the attack can put some Internet users search for.Com website to lure controlled by anonymous hackers ".

America Network Security Association Internet Storm Center (ISC) this week issued a warning about this new attack. This domain spoofing attack destroys the DNS (DNS) server, sending the request to these servers to find the.Com site where the user is connected to the website controlled by the hacker. New information about the main domain spoofing attack more and more, according to the data, in a similar attack in early March, at least 1300 Internet domain name was lured to the destruction of the network server.

ISC news release on its website, the proposed network operators to attack IP address entry involves traffic interception, prevent the destruction of the server to mislead users.

DNS is the computer's global network, to resolve the request issued to the user friendly domain name such as www.computerworld.com into digital IP address, communicate to the internet.

Latest attack with a DNS buffer called poisoning strategy, where a malicious hackers use a DNS server control they provide incorrect information to other DNS servers. Hackers use a thin weakness of DNS, that is, any DNS server in a domain name on the Internet after receiving the IP address request, can return to the address of other domain names.

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